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[erythristic]

To those recently introduced to the Retrospec application, welcome.

Ms. Wiseman's comments yesterday lead me into a jumping off point for a small reminder. If you are affected physically by your recollections and you would like a medical professional to look at what's changed or you require attention for matters related to this app that would be difficult to explain to another doctor, contact me. My name is Grell Sutcliffe, and so far I've been handling such matters for quite a while - I've also been physically changed myself, so I understand how disorienting the experience is. All visits and information are kept confidential, as would be expected for any patient. If you want to tell people, it's on your own time.

And going off of that, I have some findings for us all, ones that I confess are not reassuring in the slightest. If you'd rather not read this for peace of mind, none will judge you.

[the rest of this post is hidden under a collapsible link - letting people choose if they want to read on.]

Death is not permanent. At least when it comes to Retrospec users. There was an incident of someone being resurrected recently, and if you know who it is, I advise you to not go babbling about it. That's their information to hand out. But regardless, I personally could confirm the death, and on the same day, the person was in a hospital room unconscious but most certainly alive and recovering. No, I don't know how they did it, no, I didn't help them. I'm as baffled as the rest of you are going to be, and I cannot tell whether this information is anything short of frightening. Quite frankly, I was debating whether I should release this knowledge at all, but after consideration, it's best that you know.

I'll try to answer any questions as best I can.

Comments

cw: suicide

[promisedyou]

Great, the "we're all in this together" type of scenario. Well, I suppose it's not the worst thing, but it's still a concern. Especially when everything's a mess. First there's memories and now dealing with death being a non-permanent thing?

I'd laugh if someone was crazy enough to - I don't know, make the attempt to kill themselves because they know there's no consequence to death. Although it's honestly very risky if I don't say so myself.

[erythristic]

I would hope that common sense and decency would prevent that from ever being the case. Just because death doesn't stick doesn't mean it comes without a price.

[promisedyou]

Not everyone has either of those, apparently. I mean, they warned about the mailbox, and someone pretty much messaged "hey, let's go do the stupid thing because I was warned about it!" You know, just to test it out.

I hope that nobody goes that crazy. There's a limit to these types of things, you know? Unless they're some kind of masochists.

[erythristic]

Destroying a mailbox to cause more stress in the life of an unfortunate intern and death are two different ends of the spectrum. Even the most outrageous of us should not want to cause their loved ones that sort of grief.

[promisedyou]

They might both be minor, but they're still things that can cause serious consequences. I mean, we don't know what will happen to the poor person who decides to mess with the mailbox.

[erythristic]

Something that'll make a certain Mr. Halloway laugh, I'm certain.

[promisedyou]

Well, I guess it will make me question about their sense of humor.

[erythristic]

Jim's proven himself to be utterly questionable in the past.

[promisedyou]

Now that's just sad.

[erythristic]

If he comes back, you'll know.